is is possible to run bazzite-gnome, but have gamescope-session as an option to select during login
it'd be nice for to be able to run bazzite on a standard desktop with regular login prompts, etc, but be able to select gamescope-session in gdm or sddm
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We don't have an image for this at this time, but it may be possible in the near future
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We don't have an image for this at this time, but it may be possible in the near future
Working on GDM builds for GNOME (Replacing SteamOS's SDDM configs we use on the deck builds)
and then a futue toggle-autologin enhancement would give you what you want
hrm, so would it be possible on bazzite-kde then?
It would, I'm saying using GDM by nature requires us to move away from Valves session design and fix the things that make this difficult
i will just provide the same answer i provided someone on the forums about this, but you will be doing this on your own risk (it is essentially what i do to my desktop deck image for my threadripper VM testing rig) but it is not a use case we actively test for since i believe i am the only one who does this on 1 image which is custom.
https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/multiple-users-sddm-on-asus-rog-ally/685
essentially if you do this, there is a chance it might break in the future (especially on gnome if we someday manage to not rely on SDDM)
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Multiple Users (SDDM) on Asus Rog Ally
Hi there, how can I enable SDDM on my Asus Rog Ally? Thanks for your help, Bazzite is awesome! Karolin
it might also happen you need to blank out the file instead of deleting it, not 100% sure how the overlayfs for /etc handles file deletion since i do this on a custom image
Great, I'll have to try this out. This would be on the bazzite-deck image?
my custom image is based on bazzite-deck so yes. it might work on gnome too but never tested it and it might break when kyle switches over to GDM since you also disable the autologin service
hrm, so whenever I remove the autologin conf file, it always is re-added after reboot. so the autologin behavior is forced on no matter what. 🤔
something similar happens for my autostart scripts, they always get forcibly removed after reboot, so I always need to manually run the rotation fix in desktop mode.
thats why i said you might have to blank them out
so its counted as a user change
ahh, gotcha. so blank it out instead of delete it
yeah since on the custom image i just remove them so i do not know if removing is enough for normal deck image 😄
Nice that did it. Now if only I could figure out why bazzite keeps wiping all my auto start scripts 🤔🤔
I keep having to manually run the rotation fix on plasma desktop
Oh nevermind, using game mode automatically resets the auto login conf file
Guess having sddm login with game mode just isn't possible right now without rolling a custom image 😔
you cant add them as autostart scripts at session login?
I've been adding them to auto start as scripts
But on reboot, they're always removed
🤔
thats odd
So I literally cannot add any scripts
~/.config/autostart right?Yep
After adding them to autostart, the desktop entries are there in the autostart directory
But after reboot, poof all gone
at that point i would try the more destructive option
systemd user service unit 🤣
but odd i dont have that issue on kde
Would the bazzite rotation fix script even work as a systemd service though?
should work as a user service
system service only if it needs sudo
Ah yeah I meant systemctl --user
But anyways, looks like I can't really achieve the desired auto login behavior while keeping game mode as a selectable option
I wonder if I could get it to work by changing the auto login file permissions to read only
nope, neither systemctl --user service, nor making the autologin file read-only, can fix the issues
so basically I guess it's not possible to get this setup working without a custom image.
how have you actually implemented the script? how does the .desktop file look?
it's literally just the already prepackaged bazzite-rotation-fix script
/etc/libexec/bazzite-rotation-fix
err sorry, wrong path
but the actual path is correct in the desktop file
you using gnome?
nope, bazzite-deck
yeah that one should work
well i guess this setup won't be possible for now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯